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OKLAHOMA RED BOOK 409
CREEK AGREEMENT, 1889
SUMMARY.
Preamble.
Sec. 1 Consideration in lands for concession and defining boundary
Une.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Sec. 4.
Sec. 5.
Sec. 1.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Sec. 4.
Consideration in moneys, and how to be paid.
Requiring fifty thousand dollars annually, set aside for edu­cation.
Articles not binding unless approved and ratified.
Effect does not . effect existing treaties.
An Act Supplemental to Agreement.
Above agreement ratified and approved.
Lands acquired by U. S. for the public domain.
Appropriation of moneys.
Secretary of U. S. Treasury authorized to pay Creek Nation.
AN ACT TO RATIFY AND CONFIRM AN AGREEMENT WITH THE
MUSKOGEE (OR CREEK) NATION OF INDIANS IN THE
TERRITORY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Whereas, It is provided by section eight of the act of March third,
eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act making appropriations
for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for
fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year end­ing
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and' eighty-six, and for other pur­poses."
"That the President is hereby authorized to open negotiations with
the Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokees for the purpose of opening to set­tlement
· under the homestead laws, the unassigned lands in said Indian
Territory ceded by them respectively to the United States by· several
treaties of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, March twen­ty-
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six and July nineteenth, eighteen hun­dred
and ninety~six, and for that purpose the sum of five thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as J1lay be necessary be, and the saine is hereby ap­propriated,
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated;
his action hereunder to be reported to Congress," and, . ,
Whereas, William S. Vilas, 5lecretary of the Interior, by and under
the discretion of the President of the United States, on the part of the
United States, and the Muskogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians, represented
by Pleasant Porter, David M. Hodge, and Esparhecher, delegateS and rep­resentatives
thereto duly authorized and empowered by the Principal Chief
and aNtional Council of the Muskogee (or Creek) Nation, did, on the nine.
teenth day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
enter into and conclude articles of cession and agreement, which said ces­sion
and agreement is in words as follows:

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OKLAHOMA RED BOOK 409
CREEK AGREEMENT, 1889
SUMMARY.
Preamble.
Sec. 1 Consideration in lands for concession and defining boundary
Une.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Sec. 4.
Sec. 5.
Sec. 1.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Sec. 4.
Consideration in moneys, and how to be paid.
Requiring fifty thousand dollars annually, set aside for edu­cation.
Articles not binding unless approved and ratified.
Effect does not . effect existing treaties.
An Act Supplemental to Agreement.
Above agreement ratified and approved.
Lands acquired by U. S. for the public domain.
Appropriation of moneys.
Secretary of U. S. Treasury authorized to pay Creek Nation.
AN ACT TO RATIFY AND CONFIRM AN AGREEMENT WITH THE
MUSKOGEE (OR CREEK) NATION OF INDIANS IN THE
TERRITORY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Whereas, It is provided by section eight of the act of March third,
eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act making appropriations
for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for
fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year end­ing
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and' eighty-six, and for other pur­poses."
"That the President is hereby authorized to open negotiations with
the Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokees for the purpose of opening to set­tlement
· under the homestead laws, the unassigned lands in said Indian
Territory ceded by them respectively to the United States by· several
treaties of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, March twen­ty-
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six and July nineteenth, eighteen hun­dred
and ninety~six, and for that purpose the sum of five thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as J1lay be necessary be, and the saine is hereby ap­propriated,
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated;
his action hereunder to be reported to Congress," and, . ,
Whereas, William S. Vilas, 5lecretary of the Interior, by and under
the discretion of the President of the United States, on the part of the
United States, and the Muskogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians, represented
by Pleasant Porter, David M. Hodge, and Esparhecher, delegateS and rep­resentatives
thereto duly authorized and empowered by the Principal Chief
and aNtional Council of the Muskogee (or Creek) Nation, did, on the nine.
teenth day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
enter into and conclude articles of cession and agreement, which said ces­sion
and agreement is in words as follows: